How do I resolve duplicate contacts

How do I resolve duplicate contacts in Address Book? I've used the Look for duplicates feature, but nothing shows up and there are clearly duplicates in my address book. I am using iCloud. Though didn't connect my desktop until recently. My iPhone and iPad are fine. However, the address book has duplicate entries for all my contacts.

The duplicate list you were seeing were contacts stored locally on the computer. Since you had not other accounts listed, maybe you had the ON MY Mac enabled in the list before, possibly syncing to yahoo, etc.
If you had gone to the main page in the address book window in the accounts/user and group window, you should have seen ON My Mac, iCloud, and any other accounts or groups. You probably had All Contacts selected and were seeing duplicates. You could have just selected the On My Mac contacts or iCloud Contacts and you should not have seen the duplicates.
It's a bit confusing since each Lion update changed something in the way iCloud worked with address book.
But at least you have it resolved.

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